Website Myrotvorets unveils new list with personal data of foreign journalists

Website Myrotvorets has published a new list of foreign journalists who are collaborating with Russia, according to the authors of the resource.

“We could not come to a decision for a long time, but we finally did it. We decided to publish the next list of accredited foreign journalists who collaborate with the aggressor country, which finances the international terrorism and has occupied a part of the territory of Ukraine,” reads the statement published on the website.

The list contains information about 293 people, including four Ukrainian journalists. The list also indicates e-mail addresses and phone numbers.

Website Myrotvorets became at the center of the scandal on May 10 when it published the lists of journalists who had been accredited in the “DPR.” The lists contained the personal data of journalists working for BBC, Reuters, AFP, The Independent, Ceska televize, CNN, Bloomberg, Aljazeera, AP, Liberation, ITAR-TASS, RT and other media outlets.

After a barrage of criticism from journalists and human rights defenders, as well as after launch of criminal case against the website’s volunteers, the leaders of Myrotvorets said they closed the project.

Later, the web resource resumed its work and updated the list of journalists.

Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski believes that publication of the data of foreign journalists, who were working in the occupied Donbas and were accredited by the unrecognized local authorities, would damage the reputation of Ukraine.